School worker charged for grooming kids

A 50-year-old female school employee has been charged after she allegedly sent sexually explicit messages to teenage students in the NSW Hunter region.

Investigators uncovered a number of explicit text messages and phone calls between a 50-year-old female employee and a male student aged 15, over the past four months, police say.

A second student, aged 16, was also involved in sending and receiving messages and phone calls from the woman.

The woman was charged on Wednesday with grooming a child for unlawful sexual activity, using a carriage service to groom a child under 16 for sex and using a carriage service to menace, harass, offend.

She is no longer employed by the school.

She was given conditional bail and is scheduled to appear in Raymond Terrace local court on November 6.